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Hesperides (1648)
“Mie love ys dedde,
Gon to hys death-bedde,
Al under the wyllowe tree. Waterre wytches, crownede wythe reytes,
Bere mee to yer leathalle tyde.
I die; I comme; mie true love waytes.
Thos the damselle spake, and dyed.”
Ælla; a Tragycal Enterlude, "Mynstrelles Songe", line 54.
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Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 14